Literary Movements

16th & 17th Century

• Arminianism
• Calvinism 
• Captivity Narratives
• Conversion Narratives
• Covenant Theology
• Early Native American Literature
• Jeremiads
• Meditation Tradition 
• Puritanism in New England 
• Salem Witch Trials
• Sermon Structure 
• Typology

18th and early 19th Century

• Concord Chronology
• Domestic Fiction 
• Early American Novel
• Romance and Novel 
• Sentimentalism
• Southwestern Humor 

 Mid- to later 19th Century

• Liberation Narratives (Freedom Narratives, Slave Narratives)
• Naturalism
• Plantation Tradition
• Realism
• Transcendentalism
• Regionalism and Local Color
• Travel Narratives